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SHAN ONEIJ 165 sword, but all by the extremity of famine which they themselves had wrought/ 1 1 Compare Spenser's ' State of Ireland ' with ' A Description of Munster,' by Sir Henry Sidney, after a journey through it in 1566. The original of Sidney's despatch is in the Record Office. It was printed hy Collins. Sidney Papers, vol. ;